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Bonsai (PrismML's 1 bit version of Qwen3 8B 4B 1.7B) was not an aprils fools joke

Via r/LocalLlama
Thursday, Apr 2, 2026 · 3:44PM
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I read the article yesterday: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-8b And watched the only 3 videos that had surfaced about these bonsai models. Seemed legit but still maybe an aprils fools joke. So today I woke up wanting to try them. I downloaded their 8B model, their llama.cpp fork, and tested it, and

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